International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 9 (1986), Issue 2, Pages 209-221
doi:10.1155/S0161171286000273

twistors and gauge fields

A. G. Sergeev

Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia

Received 23 August 1985

Copyright © 1986 A. G. Sergeev. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We describe briefly the basic ideas and results of the twistor theory. The main points: twistor representation of Minkowsky space, Penrose correspondence and its geometrical properties, twistor interpretation of linear massless fields, Yang-Mills fields (including instantons and monopoles) and Einstein-Hilbert equations.